The Detroit Red Wings begin another crucial week tonight with a home game against the Calgary Flames. They\u2019re halfway through March, which has been their Achilles heel the past couple of seasons, and they\u2019re still in playoff contention. But with Dylan Larkin among the recent casualties, scoring will be at a premium. They\u2019re still on the playoff bubble, a point ahead of Columbus, and just two behind Montreal in the race for third place in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n
Fans have grown used to holding their breath in March, and they have home games against Montreal and Boston to white-knuckle later this week. If they make the playoffs, the pressure can\u2019t be any worse than it is right now for the Red Wings.<\/p>\n
Where:\u00a0 Little Caesars Arena<\/p>\n
When: 7 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
TV\/Radio: FanDuel Sports Network\/97.1 FM<\/p>\n
Odds:\u00a0 Calgary (+1.5, -170), Detroit (-1.5, +142), Calgary (+1.5, -170), DRAFTKINGS<\/p>\n
Not:\u00a0 The Red Wings in general. They\u2019ve lost five of six. while the Flames are the second-worst team in the NHL this season.<\/p>\n
Spotlight: The first team to three goals could likely win this one.<\/p>\n
Story: Red Wings coach Todd McLellan said nothing has changed with their injured forwards. Larkin and Andrew Copp will miss at least two weeks. Michael Rasmussen will be out for at least a week, and Michael Brandsegg-Nygard is day to day. \u2026 The Flames are expected to make four lineup changes from their 3-2 loss at the New York Islanders on Saturday; John Beecher and Adam Klapka would go in at forward for Martin Pospisil and Ryan Lomberg. Yan Kuznetsov would replace Hunter Brzustewicz on defense, and Devin Cooley is in goal for Dustin Wolf.<\/p>\n
Red Wings projected lineup<\/p>\n
Alex DeBrincat \u2014 J.T. Compher \u2014 Patrick Kane<\/p>\n
David Perron \u2014 Emmitt Finnie \u2014 Lucas Raymond<\/p>\n
John Leonard \u2014 Marco Kasper \u2014 James van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n
Mason Appleton \u2014 Sheldon Dries \u2014 Dominik Shine<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Simon Edvinsson \u2014 Moritz Seider<\/p>\n
Ben Chiarot \u2014 Justin Faulk<\/p>\n
Albert Johansson \u2014 Jacob Bernard-Docker<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
John Gibson (Cam Talbot backing up)<\/p>\n
Subs:\u00a0Axel Sandin-Pellikka, Travis Hamonic<\/p>\n
Injured:\u00a0Dylan Larkin (lower body), Andrew Copp (lower body), Michael Rasmussen (undisclosed), Michael Brandsegg-Nygard (undisclosed)<\/p>\n
Flames projected lineup<\/p>\n
Blake Coleman \u2014 Mikael Backlund \u2014 Joel Farabee<\/p>\n
Yegor Sharangovich \u2014 Ryan Strome \u2014 Victor Olofsson<\/p>\n
Matvei Gridin \u2014 Morgan Frost \u2014 Matt Coronato<\/p>\n
Connor Zary \u2014 John Beecher \u2014 Adam Klapka<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Kevin Bahl \u2014 Zach Whitecloud<\/p>\n
Yan Kuznetsov \u2014 Olli Maatta<\/p>\n
Joel Hanley \u2014 Zayne Parekh<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
Devin Cooley (backing up)<\/p>\n
Subs: \u00a0Ryan Lomberg, Martin Pospisil, Brayden Pachal, Hunter Brzustewicz<\/p>\n
Injured:\u00a0Jake Bean (undisclosed), Samuel Honzek (upper body), Jonathan Huberdeau (hip surgery)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings begin another crucial week tonight with a home game against the Calgary Flames. They\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5101],"tags":[26,599,1511,93,5137,58,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-506691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-calgary-flames","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-hockey-now","11":"tag-detroit-red-wings","12":"tag-detroitredwings","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-red-wings","17":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116240832676707540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}